Information management
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News
07 Jun 2024
European data chief prepares bid to get UK to join EU digital single market
Data initiative Gaia-X is trying to plug the UK into a planned digital European single market, as the EU seeks to extend the reach of vast and controversial data laws over global supply chains Continue Reading
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E-Zine
09 Nov 2023
Heineken lets the data flow
In this month’s CW EMEA ezine, we find out about Heineken’s mission to make the most out of the data it holds through an enterprise-wide data ecosystem. We also look at how the UK has turned its back on the German government-funded Gaia-X data platform, why cyber experts are urging the EU to rethink vulnerability disclosure plans, and how the IT industry is responding to the software developer skills shortfall. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
03 Jun 2013
Gartner: Deriving value from Big Data for CRM
Kimberly Collins, research vice-president of Gartner highlights the critical steps organisations should to take to integrate big data into Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Continue Reading
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News
03 Jun 2013
CW500: Back to the Future: Big Data at Channel 4
Bob Harris, Chief Technology Officer of Channel 4 Television, explains the broadcaster's approach to big data in this presentation for Computer Weekly's 500 Club. Continue Reading
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News
03 Jun 2013
Information Governance
This research from AIIM looks at the risk profile around electronic records, the keep-all versus delete-all options, e-discovery, and the implications of social, mobile and cloud on risk management policies. Continue Reading
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Feature
31 May 2013
Six steps to creating a BI competency center
TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson lays out a roadmap for setting up a successful business intelligence competency center, and breaking down BI silos, in a decentralized company. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 May 2013
Aadhaar project data collection: An interview with Mindtree's CEO
Get a view into the data collection efforts for the Aadhaar project from Krishnakumar Natarajan, the CEO at service provider Mindtree. Continue Reading
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News
29 May 2013
ARI uses HANA to power self-service BI for fleet management
ARI, the leasing and fleet management business, has used SAP HANA to boost business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics Continue Reading
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Feature
28 May 2013
Embedded BI: Largely invisible, but not for long
TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson tracks the ongoing evolution of embedded business intelligence tools and sees big things ahead for the technology. Make that very big things. Continue Reading
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News
24 May 2013
Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform
Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event Continue Reading
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News
23 May 2013
UCL turns to private cloud to solve its data storage woes
University College London is building a storage infrastructure in the cloud that will scale up to 100PB Continue Reading
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News
22 May 2013
McLaren uses high-speed data analytics to gain Formula 1 edge
The McLaren Group uses high-speed data analytics as it seeks a competitive edge for its Formula 1 racing team engineers Continue Reading
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News
22 May 2013
Tesco uses big data to cut cooling costs by up to €20m
Tesco is aiming to save over €20m a year by using sophisticated analytical technology to ensure its chillers work at optimum temperature Continue Reading
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News
21 May 2013
Gartner: Big data will transform customer relationship management technology
CIOs need to start thinking how to integrate big data into their customer relationship management (CRM) systems, says technology analyst Continue Reading
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News
10 May 2013
Lean analytics to change business decision making
Attending to the “one metric that really matters” is one principle of a “lean analytics” approach Continue Reading
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News
08 May 2013
SAP readies the Hana-powered enterprise cloud
SAP is making its Hana in-memory database available as a hosted service to power enterprise applications Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2013
British Army data quality programme tackles ‘whole army’ concept
The British Army’s data quality programme faces a challenge with moves to unify regular and territorial soldiers into one force Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2013
Beyond Big Data – The New Information Economy
How information is managed is more important than 'big data', say analysts Clive Longbottom and Rob Bamforth. Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2013
Information Security Breaches Survey 2013
Security breaches cost large businesses an average of £850,000, the 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey reveals. Continue Reading
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News
30 Apr 2013
Tesco uses supply chain analytics to save £100m a year
Understanding return on capital employed was a driving force behind an analytics programme which saves Tesco £100m in supply chain costs Continue Reading
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News
30 Apr 2013
Big data security: getting a grip on multiple data sources
Big data analyses multiple data points, but how do you ensure that ecosystem is secure? In this podcast, Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, outlines the key steps in achieving big data security Continue Reading
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News
29 Apr 2013
Case study: Telefonica Ireland uses business intelligence to reduce churn
O2 Ireland, part of Telefonica, has been using Teradata’s data warehousing and Cognos BI to stop customers leaving and entice them with location-based offers Continue Reading
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News
25 Apr 2013
Spam SMS messages drop following ICO penalty
The number of spam SMS messages has significantly reduced since government regulator ICO issued £440,000 fines last year Continue Reading
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News
22 Apr 2013
CIO interview: Mike Croucher, head of IT architecture and delivery, British Airways
After changes in IT leadership two years ago, the IT strategy at BA is focusing on infrastructure modernisation and smarter use of customer data Continue Reading
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Tip
22 Apr 2013
Change management tips for BI program managers
TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson writes that business intelligence managers can learn some valuable lessons from the book "Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard." Continue Reading
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News
19 Apr 2013
Open data leaders slam government over postcode privatisation
The Open Data Institute has hit out at Whitehall plans to allow details of UK postcodes to continue to be sold for profit Continue Reading
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News
17 Apr 2013
Business Outcomes from Big Data
This research study from CEB evaluates the CIO's role in making big data attainable and useful for the business. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Apr 2013
Microsoft SQL Server data profiling tool put to work
Andy Hogg demonstrates how to clean up dirty data with the data profiling tool that comes with Microsoft SQL Server Continue Reading
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News
09 Apr 2013
CIO interview: Mary Hensher, IT director, Cancer Research UK
Charity Cancer Research has felt the impact of recession on fundraising and the need to innovate through technology is more important than ever Continue Reading
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Podcast
08 Apr 2013
Big data storage: Defining big data and the type of storage it needs
Big data storage: What is big data, what compute/storage system configurations are used for big data analytics, and what type of storage infrastructure does it require? Continue Reading
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News
04 Apr 2013
Enabling the secure use of RFID
Dario Bevilacqua and Keith Mayes describe the design of an UHF RFID system for secure identification and tracking. Continue Reading
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News
04 Apr 2013
Is EMC Greenplum the real Hadoop company?
EMC Greenplum launched two new Hadoop-related technologies to support Big Data deployments. Analyst Group, Nucleus Research assesses their importance. Continue Reading
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News
04 Apr 2013
Effective print security for SMBs
Analysts Louella Fernandes and Clive Longbottom discuss how integrated print management provides SMBs with a simple and scalable approach for print security. Continue Reading
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News
03 Apr 2013
SAS: Data quality, data governance concerns impede big data programmes
Only 12% of information management professionals are doing big data, according to a survey from SAS and SourceMedia Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2013
Business intelligence program needs long-term tending to fully blossom
The evolution of Quicken Loans' business intelligence strategy from static reporting to self-service BI holds useful lessons for other organizations. Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2013
Strategic investments drive modest growth in IT spending
The relatively stable economic climate has resulted in modest IT investment, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly spending forecast Continue Reading
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News
25 Mar 2013
Making sense of storage in a big data world
Robert White, executive director for enterprise infrastructure at Morgan Stanley, offers advice on how to develop a strategy for managing big data storage. Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2013
42% of businesses use existing IT department for big data projects
Businesses are creating in--house big data functions with 42% of big data pioneers use existing IT resources and 37% creating separate functions Continue Reading
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News
21 Mar 2013
Oracle Q3 revenues down, operating profitability up, net income flat
Oracle’s Q3 sales dip 1% to $9bn, compared with Q3 the year before, but operating profitability is up and free cash flow in good shape Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Mar 2013
What does a petabyte look like?
How can you visualise a petabyte of data? What is it in real terms? Some experts try to make real the colossal size of the mighty petabyte Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2013
CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer
As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability Continue Reading
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News
15 Mar 2013
Accenture delivers rapid reporting for Six Nations
In sponsoring the Six Nations Rugby tournament, Accenture has shown how rapid prototyping can be applied to building enterprise reports Continue Reading
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News
12 Mar 2013
CW Buyer's Guide: Big Data Infrastructure
Computer Weekly looks at the mindset and technology infrastructure businesses need to analyse big data. Continue Reading
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News
08 Mar 2013
Informatica looks up, despite down year in 2012
TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson reflects on Informatica after briefings with company execs. His take: It's poised to join the ranks of elite vendors. Continue Reading
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News
06 Mar 2013
Businesses and IT suppliers to collaborate on big data
Businesses are to collaborate to work out how to exploit the rapidly growing volume of data generated by social media, mobile devices and the internet of things. Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Feb 2013
How to manage the risk of the human factor in database administration
Fail to manage the risk of the human factor in database administration and you court disaster. DBAs, like air traffic controllers: work in pairs? Continue Reading
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News
26 Feb 2013
DDN launches hScaler Hadoop appliance for enterprises
HPC and clustered NAS supplier Data Direct Networks aims at enterprise customers with Hadoop appliance comprising its SFA12K storage and commodity compute components Continue Reading
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News
26 Feb 2013
Amazon is the new battleground for data analytics
Businesses should consider Amazon's Redshift data warehouse as a service platform, says analyst Nucleus Research. Continue Reading
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News
26 Feb 2013
Accenture Technology Vision 2013
Accenture's technology vision assesses the impact of digital technology on the enterprise in 2013 and offers action points for CIOs and business leaders. Continue Reading
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News
18 Feb 2013
Innovative business technologies in a converging world
This independently researched report investigates converging business technologies, including cloud computing, big data analytics and business intelligence. Continue Reading
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News
15 Feb 2013
IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along
UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Feb 2013
Business applications, data analytics can make business lean
Centralised business apps, such as ERP and CRM can frustrate, but also make a business lean. Data analytics has a fresh Six Sigma role to play Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2013
Gartner: analytics will be more transparent, real-time and automated
Analyst firm Gartner has identified three trends for analytics and BI: transparency, real-time and automation Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2013
Skills Forecast: Big Data Analytics
This report analyses the projected demand for IT professionals with Big Data Analytic skills in the UK over the next five years. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Feb 2013
Rugby Football Union uses IBM predictive analytics for Six Nations
IBM tries out predictive analytics software, TryTracker, developed in association with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2013
Oracle’s MySQL 5.6 spans to NoSQL to offer more agility
Oracle has released version 5.6 of MySQL, which will hit the “sweet spot of the web market” according to Tomas Ulin, vice-president of engineering Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2013
Sap business suite now available on Sap Hana
This analyst report from Nucleus Research assess the impact of SAPs decision to power SAP Business Suite by its SAP HANA in memory database technology. Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2013
CW Special Report on Oracle
This special report, updated for 2012, gives an independent view of the challenges facing Oracle, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2013
Modelling the Insurance Enterprise
This report from the Open Group is aimed at managers, architects, and designers that serve the insurance industry or have an interest in integrating the TOGAF and ArchiMate standards. Continue Reading
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News
05 Feb 2013
Interview: John Harris, vice-president of global enterprise architecture, Aimia
Aimia, the organisation behind retail loyalty programme Nectar, is overhauling its IT to make the most of customer data Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Feb 2013
Process big data at speed
Low-cost solid state memory is powering high-speed analytics of big data streaming from social network feeds and the industrial internet. Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Feb 2013
Without analytics, it's 'big data, big schmada'
Data -- including big data -- has no value by itself, says TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson. It's what you do with data to gain business insights that counts. Continue Reading
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News
01 Feb 2013
Don’t make big data stand alone, warns Gartner
Gartner cautions organisations against treating big data as unique and criticises business intelligence suppliers for failing to exploit mobility Continue Reading
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News
31 Jan 2013
Digital app developer skills take centre stage in corporate IT
Digital information design skills, including building business apps, have assumed new importance in corporate IT over the past year Continue Reading
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News
28 Jan 2013
Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study
European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud Continue Reading
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News
25 Jan 2013
Ferrari swerves SAP, adopts Infor LN to meet Chinese demand
Italian sports car maker Ferrari has turned to Infor ERP technology to respond to Chinese and Middle Eastern customer demand Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Jan 2013
Online gambling sector bets on business intelligence
Online gambling and gaming industries crave structured business data. Volumes can be huge and they need to react to customer behaviour Continue Reading
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Photo Story
23 Jan 2013
The human face of Big Data
Former Time, Life and national Geographic photographer Rick Smolan visualises and navigates the world of Big Data. Continue Reading
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News
22 Jan 2013
The Human Face of Big Data: Data Driven
Software engineers are transforming the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people for good and for ill, writes Jonathan Harris. Continue Reading
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News
22 Jan 2013
The Human Face of Big Data: Pulse of the Planet
Big Data is about to radically transform our understanding of the planet, writes entrepreneur and commentator, Esther Dyson. Continue Reading
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News
21 Jan 2013
UK citizens unwilling to embrace big data
The public sector could improve services by imitating the private sector’s use of big data, but citizens are overwhelmingly against the idea Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Jan 2013
GE uses big data to power machine services business
GE, one of the UK's largest manufacturers, is using big data analytics with data generated from machine sensors to predict maintenance needs Continue Reading
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News
17 Jan 2013
Betting site YouWin speeds response times with MongoDB database
Bookmaker WinUnited has deployed a MongoDB open source non-relational database from 10gen to help it better update betting odds in real time Continue Reading
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News
11 Jan 2013
SAP puts Business Suite on HANA, joins transactional to analytical
SAP has announced that its Business Suite software now runs on the HANA in-memory database Continue Reading
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News
09 Jan 2013
King.com gaming site unlocks big data with Hadoop
Online gaming company King.com replaced its MySQL database with Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution to cope with big data Continue Reading
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News
14 Dec 2012
CIO interview: Kevin O’Connor, Carlson Wagonlit Travel
As the new CIO at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Kevin O’Connor is looking to bring in a new approach to the company’s IT strategy Continue Reading
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News
12 Dec 2012
Data to grow more quickly says IDC’s Digital Universe study
IDC’s annual Digital Universe study finds data set to expand to 40 Zettabytes by 2020. Emerging markets and machine-generated data will account for increasing proportions of it. Continue Reading
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News
10 Dec 2012
Big data analytics set to confound conventional adoption curve in UK
Big data and analytics companies predict increased adoption in the UK. MapR, Cloudera, ParAccel and Pentaho sketch out the adoption curve Continue Reading
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News
06 Dec 2012
Conquering the sys-admin challenge
This report from Quocirca presents new data on how well organisations are able to automate their sys-admin procedures, manage the use of privilege and satisfy the requirements of auditors. Continue Reading
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News
06 Dec 2012
CW buyer's guide: The business advantages of big data
Big data may appear to be just another bandwagon, but it is important, and needs to be addressed carefully and sensibly. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
30 Nov 2012
Scrum methodology FAQ for Indian professionals
An agile software development methodology, SCRUM has become popular in India over the last few years. Get all your Scrum-related queries answered here. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Nov 2012
BI catch phrases you'll hear in 2013
TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson lists six slogans that he says BI, analytics and data warehousing professionals are likely to encounter in 2013. Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Nov 2012
Hadoop World: Just like data warehousing's early days
The buzz-filled Hadoop World 2012 conference reminded TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson of a data warehousing event he attended in 1997. Still to be seen: Can Hadoop live up all to the hype? Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Nov 2012
Tripartite structure best on BI 'center of excellence'
There are no rules on how to set up a business intelligence center of excellence, says TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson. But most of the ones he sees include executive, business and technical teams. Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Nov 2012
Data quality essential to master data management
It is possible to have a data quality initiative without master data management, but every MDM project must have a data quality element Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Nov 2012
How to gather BI dashboard user requirements to nail business strategy alignment
Many analytical systems -- data warehouses, business intelligence systems -- fail because user requirements are not collected properly Continue Reading
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News
12 Nov 2012
Royal Free Hospital uses SAP BusinessObjects dashboards to fathom data
The Royal Free Hospital has implemented SAP’s Business Objects dashboard technology to fathom complex data more efficiently Continue Reading
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News
09 Nov 2012
DataDirect Networks takes aim at clustered NAS with SFA7700
DataDirect Networks (DDN) makes a play for clustered NAS customers with big data needs on its journey from HPC to scale-out supplier Continue Reading
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News
09 Nov 2012
German retailer Otto invests in neural software to net future sales
German retail giant Otto improves demand forecasting with neural network technology from Blue Yonder, a predictive analytics start-up Continue Reading
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Photo Story
07 Nov 2012
Scenes from EMC Momentum Vienna 2012
EMC Momentum took place in Vienna this year, at the Messe Wien Congress Centre. 1,100 EMC attendees descended on the conference for hands-on-labs and a selection of sessions. View photos from the event here. Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Nov 2012
Unilever enterprise data warehouse locked to business programmes
Unilever is building a global enterprise data warehouse (EDW) locked into the critical paths of high-profile business programmes. Continue Reading
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News
01 Nov 2012
West Midlands Police develops golden view of criminals, suspects
West Midlands Police, the second largest force in the UK, seeks to reduce risk to its officers and the public by using DataFlux software that gives a master record for criminals and suspects. Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2012
Teradata brings big data into the SQL family
Teradata addresses the issue of combining unstructured, semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing in a single architecture. Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2012
Analytics, Decision Making & Teams That Do It Right
Experts advise how to make the most of analytics in this report from SAS and the Harvard Business Review. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Oct 2012
CW500: Managing the mobile workforce (part 1)
Mobile working has transformed Colt Telecommunications beyond recognition over the past three years Continue Reading
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News
09 Oct 2012
Telefónica launches business to sell mobile data
O2 parent company Telefónica is to offer user data from customer's mobile phones to organisations who want to analyse customer activity Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Oct 2012
Cloud APIs at hand to connect to databases
The pros and cons of using cloud application programming interfaces (APIs) to connect users to databases via mobile or web Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Oct 2012
How to manage unstructured data for business benefit
The cloud offers some progress in the resource-sapping management of unstructured data, but it is critical to work back from the business case. Continue Reading
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News
04 Oct 2012
Big data advice from big names, Coca-Cola and Lastminute.com
Coca-Cola's chief privacy officer and Lastminute.com's innovation head offer advice on data privacy at Big Data Europe Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2012
Practical Data Migration: PDMv2
Data Migration expert Johny Morris, explains how organisations can use the PDMv2 methodology to overcome common data migration problems. Continue Reading
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News
25 Sep 2012
Big Data Analytics
IDC explores the initial impact that Big Data is having on organisations, its impact on IT architectures, delivery models and future roadmaps. Continue Reading